Planar Explorables

[Dillusionist]

The Sojourners of the Hidden Seas are a conceptually neat faction. They're a foil to the Spellguard, and are a great conduit for the old S eeker and Ascension ideals. The trouble with the faction is that the main thing they "do," searching the planes for a safe haven, cannot be done without a DM. You can certainly theme roleplay around preparing for missions and thwarting the Spellguard, but the faction doesn't stand appart from the rest of Lower on that front.

I've regularly tried bringing groups to seek out and catalog leygates and other planar phenomenon in the lowerdark on Aeylwin. But eventually, I'm going to run dry on that front without further DM action.

What I suggest is instead of granting experience, Baublium turnins will cause Zummaq to open a portal that requires 2-players to unlock once per reset. The portal is then essentially an explorable themed around various planar locales and allows Sojourners to bring along their allies and swabbies. I think this might offer a more tangible and immediate incentive to fight the spellguard over baublium, and make Sojourners able to do their thing without a DM.

I'd be happy to help design some explorables if its not a big conflict of interest. (I do have 4 non-planar ones awaiting submission already! I just wasn't sure where to email them and forgot.)

[Mortui]

While I don't know if this is the best way to go about it, something really does need to be done as Dillusionist is right, there's no incentive for people to work with the Sojourners aside from vague promises about the Planar Travels that, without a DM are entirely impossible.

[xXCrystal_Rose]

The Sojourners are a neat idea, and I really want to play as one sometime, but am having trouble conceptualizing things that I can do to promote the faction without a DM other than collecting baublium. Turning in baublium for a random mini adventure sounds like a good way to give them something to do which aligns with the theme and purpose.

[granny]

This is a suggestion thread, but as the point was brought up, I think I should tell that maybe what it lacks currently is a bit of leadership as I would be one to give support to your agenda, but I have never seen you guys truly pushing it so I could hop into to aid. The group seems more busy aiding other people's goals than anything on the moment.

You guys got numbers, you got that shady feeling about what you do and you got involved in several things. Maybe what you guys need is just a bit agglutinating of actions.

These mechanical things might help, although, considering that they usually help placing milestones to guide people into pursuing goals.

[Ebok]

As a MAJOR faction, I've always wondered why the players that are part of it are basically baublium smugglers with a few neat events now and then. I think the core AGENDA of the group needs to be more expansive and interact more with the story of the server.

If them being here caused major planar damage, and chaotic rifts through the planes began to hit the gameworld--having a group capable of controlling them would be neat. However, it seems odd to completely add in that many moving parts to give a faction more of a purpose during the downtime. I dont think any minor fix is going to change this much--its going to have to be something the DM team looks into.

Normally, I wouldn't say a faction has issues if the players are lost, but it seems to be pervasive even across very active characters. I think right now there is an expectation being created by being part of this crew, that is simply out of reach/too far away from what everyone else does to matter.

[Disco]

I pretty much know nothing of this faction, its a rather low profile faction (Atleast if you ask me). And so I support any means to make them more visible. I have no idea if OP makes any IG sense, but ooc it seem awesome to me.

[Howlando]

It's possible this faction was introduced a bit prematurely as a lot of ideas for content/purpose are not quite ready yet (hampered also by RL issues by various DMs as always), but something similar to what you propose is likely to happen at some point. Feel free to submit content to me at howlando@gmail.com (let me know when you send it as I rarely check that email address).